Frederic Maurice Lee ’35 was a national interscholastic
swimming champion during his schoolboy days at Charlestown (MA)
High and Worcester Academy. Before he left College Hill he broke
several long-standing Brown records and had the distinction of
swimming on four successive New England championship teams. Lee
captained the freshman squad to a perfect 7-0 record, including
victories over Harvard and Dartmouth, and a share of the N.E.
title. He set a Brown and N.E. record for the 220 freestyle with a
2:25.2, posted a University mark for the 100 (:54 2/5), and tied
the record for the 50 (:24). The undefeated freshman relay team of
which he was a member won the Nationals at Annapolis in 1:40.3.
During his sophomore year, Lee set a N.E. record for the 440 (5:30)
and helped lead his team to the New England championship with a
2:24.3 in the 220 freestyle. Lee also led off in the 220-yard
freestyle with a 2:22 3/5 against Harvard, lowered his own record
in the 440 with a 5:24.8 against Springfield, and was a key figure
as the Brown team of Coach Leo Barry won the New Englands again.
Lee’s senior season opened with a bang as the Bruin captain
led the 200-yard freestyle relay unit (Bob Love, Monroe
Hemmerdinger, and Bill Paulsen were the other members) to a new New
England mark of 1:36 2/5. And the season ended with the same
flourish as Brown won the New Englands with Lee taking the 100 and
the 200-yard freestyle events and swimming a leg on the winning
400-yard relay team. Fred Lee was class marshal, president of the
Cammarian Club, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He’s now senior
staff engineer with General Telephone Co., Santa Monica,
CA.